Johann Georg Bodemer

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Johann Georg Bodemer (born July 31, 1842 in Zschopau ; † November 12, 1916 in Zurich ) was a German entrepreneur and philanthropist .

Life

On July 31, 1842, Johann Georg Bodemer was born as the son of Jacob Georg Bodemer and his wife Maria Auguste Charlotte born. Krause (1817–1854) was born in Zschopau . From 1857 to 1859 he learned the trade of a kit smith in Chemnitz . From 1860 he graduated from the Polytechnische Bildungsanstalt in Dresden and switched to the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich during his studies , where he also attended lectures in philosophy, history and art history and completed his studies.

In 1867 he married Mary Albenia McKay (1846-1932), daughter of Donald McKay from Boston (USA) in Paris .

In order to acquire special knowledge, he worked as an assembly worker in an English self-actor factory (spinning machine ) in 1866/67 . In 1868 he took over the technical management of the spinning mill from his father, who had meanwhile moved to Dresden. Wilhelm Dürfeld, the husband of Bodemer's sister Eugenie Louise (1840–1931), was given commercial management. In 1872 Bodemer and Dürfeld became the owner of the parents' spinning mill and in 1886 its sole owner. In 1913 the spinning mill was converted into the stock corporation "Zschopauer Cotton Spinning AG" under the direction of factory directors William Schulz and Richard Bellmann, and Bodemer became chairman of the supervisory board.

During a trip through Switzerland he died on November 12, 1916 at the age of 74 in Zurich. On November 21, 1916, he was buried in the family crypt of the Bodemer family at the Zschopau cemetery.

Merits as an engineer

His achievements as an engineer are known far beyond the borders of Saxony. In 1873 he developed a regulator for the two newly installed water turbines, each with an output of 200 hp, and received a patent for it in 1876. The regulator was presented at the World's Fair in Philadelphia that same year , where it was widely recognized. At the Zschopau he had a weir with a steep front wall and a fall basin built for the first time in Germany according to his own design . It was 51 m wide, the height of fall was 4.15 m (from 1913 with the extension 5.40 m). The improved construction of a self-actuator with a performance increase of 25% can be traced back to him. In 1907 Bodemer had a footbridge built over the Zschopau at the spinning mill and in 1913 the so-called "Bodemerkanzel" was built on the rock above the weir. In 1909 he was awarded the honorary doctorate of Dr. Ing. Hc from the Technical University of Dresden , the Great Gold Medal of Merit for Art and Science "Virtuti et ingenio" and the honorary citizen of his hometown Zschopau.

literature

  • Archive of the Horst Kretzschmar family, Zschopau
  • Reinhold Timme: Dr. Ing. Hc Johann Georg † in "Meine Heimat", issue No. 4 from July 1, 1917, p. 64/65
  • Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Zschopau cotton spinning mill 1819–1919 (also picture source)
  • Herbert Pönicke:  Bodemer, Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 353 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Schäfer: Family businesses and entrepreneurial families: on the social and economic history of Saxon entrepreneurs 1850–1940 ; CH Beck Munich 2007, p. 117 restricted preview
personal data
SURNAME Bodemer, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschopau
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1916
Place of death Zurich